Video Resources for Youth Ministry

Dr. Bob Rice Hosts Webinar for Youth Ministry in America

In this workshop, Dr. Bob Rice, of Franciscan University at Steubenville Ohio, unpacks the history of Catholic ministry to youth in America over the past approximately 100 years. This sets the stage for knowing where youth ministry "needs to go" today and in the future, given the sharp decline in youth and adult engagement in the life of the Church.

On Families Rediscovering their Role as Primary Faith Formators of their Children

This workshop will seek to more deeply understand and give practical advice responding to these words of St. John Paul II: “Thus the little domestic Church, like the greater Church, needs to be constantly and intensely evangelized: hence its duty regarding permanent education in the faith…the family, like the Church, ought to be a place where the Gospel is transmitted and from which the Gospel radiates…the future of evangelization depends in great part on the Church of the home” (Familiaris Consortio 51-52).

5 Characteristics of Effective Catechesis

There is often a confusion within North America about the relationship of education and catechesis. Education is an indispensable part of catechesis, but catechesis seeks a loftier goal: “The definitive aim of catechesis is to put people not only in touch but in communion, in intimacy, with Jesus Christ” (John Paul II, Catechesi Tradendae5). The goal of catechesis is not just information, but transformation through the power of the Holy Spirit. It must be Christocentric, systematic, organic, kerygmatic, and beautiful. For, “The whole concern of doctrine and its teaching must be directed to the love that never ends” (CCC 25).